C and EN: After declining 1.5% in 2009, global carbon dioxide emissions rose 5.8% in 2010, the largest yearly jump in two decades, according to a Worldwatch Institute report released on April 28. Worldwatch is a Washington, D.C.-based, environmental think tank. Report author Xing Fu-Bertaux says economic recovery is the primary reason for the increase. In addition, the report finds little progress in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, noting that CO2 levels are now 45% higher than they were in 1990,...
URL: http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i19/Climate-Change-Global-growth-carbon.html
Enclosure: http://www.worldwatch.org/economic-recovery-brings-return-growth-co2-emissions-0
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